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Assessing the burden of pregnancy-associated malaria under changing transmission settingsMario Recker
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK
Malar J 8:245. 2009..This can potentially lead to an underestimation of its overall burden on the female population, especially in regions prone to epidemic outbreaks and where malaria transmission is generally low...
Virology. What links bats to emerging infectious diseases?Andrew P Dobson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Science 310:628-9. 2005- Ecology. Metalife!Andy Dobson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Science 301:1488-90. 2003 - Sacred cows and sympathetic squirrels: the importance of biological diversity to human healthAndy Dobson
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
PLoS Med 3:e231. 2006 - Colloquium paper: homage to Linnaeus: how many parasites? How many hosts?Andy Dobson
EEB, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11482-9. 2008..This implies that parasite extinctions may have unforeseen costs that impact the health and abundance of a large number of free-living species... - Spatial and temporal association of outbreaks of H5N1 influenza virus infection in wild birds with the 0 degrees C isothermLeslie A Reperant
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
PLoS Pathog 6:e1000854. 2010.... - Climate warming and disease risks for terrestrial and marine biotaC Drew Harvell
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
Science 296:2158-62. 2002..To improve our ability to predict epidemics in wild populations, it will be necessary to separate the independent and interactive effects of multiple climate drivers on disease impact... 
Epidemic dynamics at the human-animal interfaceJames O Lloyd-Smith
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Science 326:1362-7. 2009..Progress in understanding and combating zoonoses requires a new generation of models that addresses a broader set of pathogen life histories and integrates across host species and scientific disciplines...- Agricultural intensification, priming for persistence and the emergence of Nipah virus: a lethal bat-borne zoonosisJuliet R C Pulliam
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
J R Soc Interface 9:89-101. 2012..Thus, we provide empirical evidence for a causative mechanism previously proposed as a precursor to widespread infection with H5N1 avian influenza and other emerging pathogens... - Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuariesArmand M Kuris
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology and Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Nature 454:515-8. 2008..This biomass and productivity of parasites implies a profound role for infectious processes in these estuaries... - Epidemic enhancement in partially immune populationsJuliet R C Pulliam
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America
PLoS ONE 2:e165. 2007..This finding implies that repeated pathogen introduction or intermediate levels of vaccine coverage can lead to pathogen persistence in populations where extinction would otherwise be expected... - Synchronous cycles of domestic dog rabies in sub-Saharan Africa and the impact of control effortsKatie Hampson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:7717-22. 2007.... - Transmission dynamics and prospects for the elimination of canine rabiesKatie Hampson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA
PLoS Biol 7:e53. 2009..Nonetheless our analyses suggest that with sustained, international commitment, global elimination of rabies from domestic dog populations, the most dangerous vector to humans, is a realistic goal... - Food-web structure and ecosystem services: insights from the SerengetiAndy Dobson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 8544 1003, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1665-82. 2009.... - How does poaching affect the size of national parks?Andy Dobson
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 23:177-80. 2008.... - Monitoring global rates of biodiversity change: challenges that arise in meeting the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) 2010 goalsAndy Dobson
EEB, Eno Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544 1003, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 360:229-41. 2005..Here I will emphasize that we need not only to monitor these benefits, but also to significantly increase public awareness of human dependence upon the role that non-voting species play in driving the world's financial economy... - Sources and sinks: revisiting the criteria for identifying reservoirs for American cutaneous leishmaniasisLuis F Chaves
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Trends Parasitol 23:311-6. 2007..We use a straightforward mathematical framework to illustrate that misuse of association patterns, as guidance for implementation of control measures, can in fact increase the endemism of leishmaniasis... - Evolution of virulence in heterogeneous host communities under multiple trade-offsErik E Osnas
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Evolution 66:391-401. 2012..We found that the magnitude of between-species transmission and the relative timing of transmission and mortality across species were of primary importance for determining the evolutionarily stable virulence... - Evolution of virulence when transmission occurs before diseaseErik E Osnas
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Biol Lett 6:505-8. 2010..This model predicts that ESS virulence is highly dependent on the timing of transmission and pathology after infection; thus, pathogen evolution may either increase or decrease virulence after emergence in a new host... - Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (H5N1) infection in red foxes fed infected bird carcassesLeslie A Reperant
Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1835-41. 2008..This study demonstrates that red foxes fed bird carcasses infected with HPAI virus (H5N1) can excrete virus while remaining free of severe disease, thereby potentially playing a role in virus dispersal... - Cholera and climate: revisiting the quantitative evidenceMercedes Pascual
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, 830 N University Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 1048, USA
Microbes Infect 4:237-45. 2002..A better understanding of disease risk related to the environment should further underscore the need for changing the socioeconomic conditions conducive to cholera... - Seasonal patterns of infectious diseasesMercedes Pascual
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
PLoS Med 2:e5. 2005 - Introduced species and their missing parasitesMark E Torchin
Marine Science Institute and Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Nature 421:628-30. 2003.... - Is a healthy ecosystem one that is rich in parasites?Peter J Hudson
Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Trends Ecol Evol 21:381-5. 2006.... - Parasites dominate food web linksKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, U S Geological Survey, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:11211-6. 2006..These results show that food webs are very incomplete without parasites. Most notably, recognition of parasite links may have important consequences for ecosystem stability because they can increase connectance and nestedness... - Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland communityElizabeth T Borer
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:5473-8. 2007..Pathogen-mediated reversals in competitive balance may be critically important for understanding past, and predicting future, invasions... - Projected impacts of climate and land-use change on the global diversity of birdsWalter Jetz
Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, United States of America
PLoS Biol 5:e157. 2007..A vastly expanded reserve network in the tropics, coupled with more ambitious goals to reduce climate change, will be needed to minimize global extinctions... - Estimation and inference of R0 of an infectious pathogen by a removal methodMatthew J Ferrari
IGDP in Ecology, 501 ASI Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
Math Biosci 198:14-26. 2005..We illustrate the performance of the estimators on both simulated data and real epidemics. Lastly, we discuss methods to address data collected with observation error... - West Nile virus risk assessment and the bridge vector paradigmA Marm Kilpatrick
Consortium for Conservation Medicine, Wildlife Trust, 61 Rte 9W, Palisades, NY 10964, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:425-9. 2005..Our risk measure has broad applicability to other regions and diseases and can be adapted for use as a predictive tool of future human WNV infections... - Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing linksKevin D Lafferty
Western Ecological Research Center, U S Geological Survey c o Marine Science Institute, UC, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Ecol Lett 11:533-46. 2008.... - Body-size scaling in an SEI model of wildlife diseasesLuca Bolzoni
Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Universita degli Studi di Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 11 A, 43100 Parma, Italy
Theor Popul Biol 73:374-82. 2008....